Word: panic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Spokesman Baldwin then hinted that Germany ought to rejoin the League and subscribe to the Eastern Locarno Pact, a hint strongly repeated in Paris three days later by French Foreign Minister Pierre Laval. He then told Britons that "there is no ground at this moment for undue alarm or panic" since His Majesty's Government is rapidly strengthening the Royal Air Force. "What is now happening is the tragedy of Germany.'' Mr. Baldwin concluded. "Germany has cut herself off from the comity of nations." To most of the King's subjects this, as intended, was anything...
...Panic-stricken for fear Leonard would leave her, she talked of a suicide pact, wrote him foolish letters which he foolishly kept, toying with the idea of removing their stubborn obstacle. When one night Leonard made a drunken attack on her husband and unintentionally killed him, they were both charged with murder. Not even after the verdict was pronounced could Julia believe she would really have to die. The hypodermics they gave her as she waited for the gallows dulled her mind but did not change...
Vienna, Dec. 7--Authorities were concerned tonight with a startling increase in terroristic bombings spreading panic through Austria, as indications grew that the Nazis again are active...
...Step on the gas!" was Sergeant Honda's only thought in his panic. The Imperial motorcade got so far ahead of schedule that at Nishi Technical College, Education Minister Benji Matsuda was not yet dressed when his God swept up to the door. Thrown completely out of gear, the Son of Heaven's program for the day became so disarranged that at one point he had to wait 20 minutes-a sacrilege unspeakable...
...Yankee tinkerers, the late great George Westinghouse. He founded scores of concerns to exploit his contraptions. At one time he was worth at least $50,000,000. Heads of the Westinghouse corporate family have always been Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing, which passed from the founder's control in the panic of 1907, and Westinghouse Air Brake, which was the first but is no longer the foremost. Today Air Brake's assets of $55,000,000 are topped by Electric...